The Pentagon may have found a much cheaper alternative to Patriot missiles - for less than $750,000 a shot

Vilnius Lithuania 2023-07-10 The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states.

• X-Bow received nearly $11 million under a new interceptor development contract
• The new interceptor system targets a cost below $750,000 per launch
• Patriot missiles currently cost roughly one-fifth more than this new target

The Pentagon has awarded X-Bow Systems almost $11 million to develop a lower-cost interceptor system under a missile defense program.